Fourteen Kizz Daniel sound recordings now carry a phonogram credit that reads “Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd”. Until the last week of September 2026 the same fourteen read “Flyboy I.N.C”, and before that “Flyboy Inc”. Nobody announced the change. The Internet Archive brackets it to a five-day window. And the one album Kizz Daniel publicly said he had recovered from his former label was not in the batch: seventeen months on, it still credits that label.
The short version#
- What moved: the stated phonogram owner on fourteen recordings first released between 1 December 2017 and 31 March 2024, including the 20-track album No Bad Songz. It changed from “Flyboy I.N.C” to “Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd”.
- When: between 22 and 27 September 2026. The superseded Apple Music entry for No Bad Songz was captured on 22 September reading “Flyboy I.N.C”; its replacement on 27 September reads “Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd”.
- How: a re-delivery, not an edit. The five earlier Apple Music entries for that album now return 404. The barcode did not change, so the same product was re-supplied under a new store entry.
- Who is not in it: EMPIRE. It appears on none of the fourteen, and never did. Its position on new Kizz Daniel releases is unchanged.
- What did not move: New Era, his 2016 debut for G-Worldwide Entertainment. Apple Music and Deezer both still name G-Worldwide as owner.
- What is not disclosed: everything. No party has commented, and no consideration, term or instrument is stated anywhere this desk could reach.
A five-day window, nailed by an archive#
A phonogram credit, the line beginning with the circled P, is the delivering company’s own assertion of who claims the sound recording. It is not a register and does not prove title. But when it changes, something has usually happened in the paperwork.
Here the change is unusually well dated. Apple Music issues a fresh collection ID when a catalogue is re-delivered, orphaning the old one. The old entry for No Bad Songz, ID 6769689937, was captured by the Internet Archive on 22 September 2026 reading “℗ 2018 Flyboy I.N.C”. Its replacement, 6815051416, was captured on 27 September reading “℗ 2018 Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd”, and again on 12 October. Five days, two captures, one wording change.
The same before-and-after appears on two further titles. No Do read “Flyboy I.N.C” on 2 August 2026 and “Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd” on 30 September. One Ticket, the Davido collaboration, read “Flyboy I.N.C” on 21 June 2026 and reads the new wording live now.
All fourteen sit inside one narrow Apple collection-ID band, 6815035030 to 6815051416, which is what a single delivery batch looks like from outside: No Do, 4DAYZ, For You with Wizkid, One Ticket, No Bad Songz, Madu, Poko, Fvck You, Eko, Pak ‘n’ Go, Pah Poh, Jaho, Currently and Flex. The credit is identical in the United States, Nigerian and British storefronts, all read on 11 November 2026.
Same barcode, new shopfront#
Whether this is a metadata edit or a re-delivery matters. The evidence says re-delivery. No Bad Songz has had six Apple Music entries since 2019; the first five all return HTTP 404 and are absent from Apple’s lookup API, and only the current one resolves.
But the barcode held. Apple’s archived pages carried UPC 5050580700604 for the album in October 2021 and March 2022, and Deezer returns the same 5050580700604 today. This is not a new product replacing an old one but the same product, re-supplied with the owner name spelled differently at the far end. That is a distributor-level action. Who performed it cannot be established, and no party has said.
EMPIRE is not in this, and never was#
This is the easiest thing to get wrong. EMPIRE has been Kizz Daniel’s distribution, recording and publishing partner since June 2020. It appears on none of the fourteen re-delivered credits, and it never appeared on them: every archived capture of this catalogue from 8 June 2019 through 22 September 2026 reads “Flyboy Inc” or “Flyboy I.N.C” alone.
The reason is chronological: this is the back catalogue, and it predates the EMPIRE arrangement. Everything from King of Love on 25 June 2020 onward carries a joint credit and still does: the most recent release checked, Owo Oluwa of 15 September 2026, reads “℗ 2026 FlyBoy INC / EMPIRE” on both Apple Music and Deezer. Nothing here suggests EMPIRE has been dropped. Its ownership, which California filings show sitting entirely with Ghazi Shami, is covered in a separate record.
The album he said he got back#
On 9 June 2025 Kizz Daniel wrote that after “several mediations” he now owned every song on New Era, his 2016 debut, plus the singles Yeba and Sofa, all recorded for G-Worldwide Entertainment. This desk recorded at the time that Apple Music’s copyright line still said G-Worldwide. Re-checked now, the answer has got sharper.
New Era was not in the September 2026 batch. Its own superseded Apple entry, 1302462707, was captured on 19 August 2019 reading “℗ 2016 G-Worldwide Entertainment”, with the artist name rendered “Kiss Daniel”, his earlier spelling. That entry is now a 404. The live entry, 1817530403, first archived on 30 January 2026, reads “℗ 2025 G-Worldwide Entertainment”.
Read that twice: the named owner is the same. The phonogram year has advanced from 2016 to 2025, on a recording whose stated release date is still 14 May 2016. Deezer agrees on the owner, listing the album under label “G-Worldwide Entertainment”. Yeba and Sofa keep their original 2017-era entries and their original “℗ 2017 G-Worldwide Entertainment” credits. Neither was re-delivered.
A phonogram year states first publication, so an advancing year on an old master can reflect a re-release rather than a change of hands. What it does not look like is a reversion to the artist. Seventeen months on, two registries independently name the former label, and the only visible movement runs opposite to the claim. This desk is not saying the claim is false. It is saying no public record supports it.
One song, two owners, seven years#
There is a stranger artefact here. Apple Music carries two live entries for a Kizz Daniel track called 4Dayz, both dated 1 February 2018. One reads “℗ 2018 G-Worldwide Entertainment”, the other “℗ 2018 Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd”. They are not the same file: the first runs 2 minutes 21 seconds, the second 2 minutes 40. Deezer holds the pair under two artist profiles at two different barcodes. So these are two separately barcoded products for one song title, with two different stated owners, coexisting since at least June 2019. Whether they derive from the same master is not something metadata can answer.
One piece of context belongs here, with care. Trade reporting dated 2 June 2023 records that Kizz Daniel appointed Festus Ehimare, who performs as Emperor Geezy and founded G-Worldwide Entertainment, as chief executive of Fly Boy Inc. G-Worldwide had sued the artist in 2017. The two companies named across this catalogue are not strangers. No source found connects that appointment to the re-delivery, and this piece draws no connection.
What this means for artists#
A re-delivery rewrites your public ownership record, and you will not be notified. The old store page is not corrected, it is deleted. Five of six Apple entries for a hit Nigerian album are now 404s. The earlier wording is provable only because a volunteer archive captured those pages. Screenshot your release pages, credit line included, once a year.
Ask whose delivery credentials control your back catalogue. Whoever can re-send it can change the name on it. That usually sits with a distributor or a label’s operations team, not the artist, and survives long after the deal that created it.
“I got my masters back” has to be visible somewhere. A settlement can be real and still leave every public credit untouched, because nobody is obliged to update a DSP credit line. If recovery is part of your deal, make re-delivery of the corrected credit a dated obligation in the document. Otherwise the internet keeps telling sync agents and future partners that someone else owns the record.
A fuller company name is not a new company. “Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd” may simply be the registered name behind “Flyboy Inc”, and that is the most likely reading. It is also why these changes get over-reported: a wording change looks like a transaction until you check.
What could not be established#
This desk does not claim any rights were sold, assigned or transferred in September 2026. What is documented is a change in the stated phonogram owner on fourteen recordings, bracketed to five days. The underlying instrument, if one exists, is not public.
“Flyboy Incredible Music Ltd” was not established as a distinct legal entity. The UK register holds no company of that name: eleven containing “Flyboy” exist there and all are dissolved, and four containing “Incredible Music” exist, none with “Flyboy” in the name. Both companies here are Nigerian, and Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission register was not reachable from this desk. That is an unperformed check, not a negative finding.
The publishing side is entirely unestablished: every society repertory search attempted returned an error or blocked this desk. MusicBrainz, a third registry, disagrees with both stores on this album, holding it under label “Flyboy I.N.C” at a barcode matching neither. The collection-ID band dating is an inference from identifier ordering, not a document, and is flagged as such in the full deal record. No party was contacted before publication. No wrongdoing is alleged against anyone named. Corrections and documents are welcome and will be published.
